tortious

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to the nature of a tort

   “tortious acts”

Questions about tortious

What does tortious mean?

tortious means "of or pertaining to the nature of a tort".

How many syllables are in tortious?

tortious has 3 syllables and divides as tor-ti-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is tortious a common word?

tortious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.